And let’s remember the number one reason for a plant-based diet—compassion for other Beings; Beings who can feel pain, sadness, and grief as well as joy and contentment. We become that which we eat—we can become the sun and rain, or the misery and pain.
As I’ve gone deeper into my own plant-based, vegan lifestyle, I’m understood more fully the sacred act that cooking and eating actually is. As consumers, if we are mindful at the moments of selecting ingredients, cooking, and eating, we know we’ve benefitted from countless other beings for that offering. Our lives, in turn, should be of benefit to others through the alchemy that is the transformation of the metabolizing energy from the foods we eat, to our own benevolent actions out in the world of form. When we eat a plant-based meal, we have eased some of the world’s pain and suffering by not allowing the pain and suffering of the beings that died to enter into our body. It’s a vibrational energy that can be felt—I’ve felt it.
Thank you for this advice which for me comes at just the right moment in my life. After a cancer diagnosis I need to find new ways of connecting with nourishment.
Thanks for sharing these perspectives on food as well as some helpful ideas about how to approach it all. I love the idea of making the experience of cooking one of mindfulness and grounding -- not just a time to throw something together and get on to the next thing.
I hadn't seen this post before. I've been vegan for over forty years now, and all the things you say are true. I love the food I eat, find cooking a form of meditation, and appreciate so much how it helps my health, the planet and animals.
I love veggies and fruits. I still have to have some meat in my diet even organ meat -- yikes -- to keep my Wahls' Protocol diet for multiple sclerosis. Nonetheless, she wants us MSers like her to have vegetables make up the majority of our diet -- 7 cups of veggies every day. Thank goodness for smoothies.
Eat in accordance to your vibes 😉
Yes! 🙌
You are beyond cool and gracious, brotha! Much thanks. Didn’t see that coming.
And let’s remember the number one reason for a plant-based diet—compassion for other Beings; Beings who can feel pain, sadness, and grief as well as joy and contentment. We become that which we eat—we can become the sun and rain, or the misery and pain.
BTW, the dish looked awesome!
Great point Kert. Maybe I need to add something on that.
As I’ve gone deeper into my own plant-based, vegan lifestyle, I’m understood more fully the sacred act that cooking and eating actually is. As consumers, if we are mindful at the moments of selecting ingredients, cooking, and eating, we know we’ve benefitted from countless other beings for that offering. Our lives, in turn, should be of benefit to others through the alchemy that is the transformation of the metabolizing energy from the foods we eat, to our own benevolent actions out in the world of form. When we eat a plant-based meal, we have eased some of the world’s pain and suffering by not allowing the pain and suffering of the beings that died to enter into our body. It’s a vibrational energy that can be felt—I’ve felt it.
Thank you for this advice which for me comes at just the right moment in my life. After a cancer diagnosis I need to find new ways of connecting with nourishment.
Thanks for sharing these perspectives on food as well as some helpful ideas about how to approach it all. I love the idea of making the experience of cooking one of mindfulness and grounding -- not just a time to throw something together and get on to the next thing.
Yes! 🙌 Mindfulness and Grounding as a culinary experience is the way.
I hadn't seen this post before. I've been vegan for over forty years now, and all the things you say are true. I love the food I eat, find cooking a form of meditation, and appreciate so much how it helps my health, the planet and animals.
I love veggies and fruits. I still have to have some meat in my diet even organ meat -- yikes -- to keep my Wahls' Protocol diet for multiple sclerosis. Nonetheless, she wants us MSers like her to have vegetables make up the majority of our diet -- 7 cups of veggies every day. Thank goodness for smoothies.